Shoe-maker s measuring-tablet



all the measurements relating to each size be- UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

HUGH WHITE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

--SHOE-MAKERS MEASURING-TABLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,569, dated. January13, 1880.

Application filed August 19, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HUGH WHITE, of the cityof Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Shoe-Makers Measuring- Tablets, of whichthe following is a speciiica tion.

The accompanying drawings show at Figure 1 a plan view, at Fig. 2 across-section, and at Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of my in vention.Fig.4is a view of the movable tabulated measurements.

Like letters indicate like parts in all the figures in which theyappear.

In said drawings, A is a flat tablet of any suitable size, with openingsa, a a], and a? through it, as hereinafter specified. Centrally andparallel with the flat sides thereof the tablet is recessed to receiveand hold a sliding plate or piece of paperboard, B, nearly coextensivewith the tablet itself. This piece B contains the measurements of thediii'erent portions of the foot necessary to be known in cutting out theparts of the boot or shoe tabulated in vertical columns and horizontallines,

ingarranged upon the same line. These tables become visible through theopenings at a in the tablet, one set or table being shown upon one sideand another set upon the other side of the tablet, as both sides of theboard B are printed each with a different table and matter.

The opening a is for the purpose of disclosing the width -letter of thesize, and hence such opening need be only large enough to show oneletter.

The openin s a a are duplicates of each other, for disclosing themovabletable of measurements arranged in two columns. The object' ofhaving two openings to is in order to save length and make the devicecompact and shapely.

The tables consist of measurements arranged in four verticalcolumns-ball, instep, heel, and ankle measurements of the same kindbeing in vertical lines and the same relation or size in horizontallines.

Upon the tablet, at the top of the opening, are the titles or names 0 ofthe place of measurement, as shown in the drawings, and at the side arenumbers 0, denoting the sizes. There appears, therefore, upon thedevice, first, the indicator-letter at a, denoting the width, as, say,Gr last, next, at the vertical openings, all of the sizes from 0 or 1tolS belonging to this width. By moving the inclosed board B up or downthe indicatorletteris changed and the tables also changed to correspond.The oblong aperture a affords a means of grasping the board with thethumb and finger 13:; eii'ect such change.

This device will be found to be exceedingly convenien t for shoe-makersand manufacturers, and also for dealers.

The matter of the tables on one face is made to denote mens and womenssizes, and on the other childrens and misses sizes, so that oneapparatus does for both kinds of boots and shoes by simply turning theapparatus overin the hand.

I claim As anew manufacture, a slioe-makers tablet consisting of atablet having openings to a. c, and an interior sliding piece, B, thetablet having numbers denoting the sizes at the side of the openings (1a, and the piece B having the foot-measurements arranged in horizontallines, so as to be visible through said openings a a, the mens andwomens sizes being upon one face and the misses and childrens upon thereverse face, and having also widthmarks visible through the opening at,the whole being constructed and arranged as described.

HUGH WHITE. l/Vitnesses:

EDW. S. EVARTS, H. M. MUNDAY.

